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Enrollment
653
Middle
DISTRICT 640 · STATE 482
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GAHANNA-JEFFERSON CITY·NCES 390469600258
Gahanna South Middle School
349 Shady Spring Dr, Gahanna, OH 43230 · (614) 337-3730 · Franklin County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL653 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 44% of Ohio public middle schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Ohio public middle schools
Student : Teacher
19.4:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.2:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
33%
216 students
DISTRICT 36% · STATE 43%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 227 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 216 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 210 | 32% |
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Gahanna South Middle School→Lincoln High School
Based on grade levels within Gahanna-Jefferson City. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
68.0%
OH avg 59.8% . +3.8pp since 2021
Math
74.6%
OH avg 56.1% . -4.0pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 4 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 68.0% | 74.6% |
| 2023-24 | 64.2% | 79.4% |
| 2022-23 | 65.7% | 76.8% |
| 2021-22 | 64.2% | 78.6% |
% Proficient or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Ohio's State Tests. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
70.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
76.3%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 76% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Ohio's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Gahanna South Middle School
Gahanna South Middle School's state test result (70.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gahanna South Middle School this school | 653 | 33.1% | 70.5% |
| Walnut Springs Middle School Westerville | 613 | 40.1% | 67.5% |
| R B Chamberlin Middle School Twinsburg | 564 | 27.1% | 76.3% |
| Geo G Dodge Elementary School Twinsburg | 859 | 27.5% | 79.6% |
| Heritage Middle School Westerville | 592 | 45.3% | 71.5% |
| Mayfield Middle School Cleveland | 896 | 33.8% | 74.0% |
Matched among Ohio middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Gahanna South Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Franklin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.5% | #180 of 316 | #15 of 33 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 74.6% | #212 of 637 ▼ 79 | #18 of 64 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 68.0% | #267 of 637 ▲ 24 | #19 of 64 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.1pp | #187 of 629 | #22 of 63 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 653 | #152 of 654 | #28 of 66 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.4:1 | #453 of 577 | #54 of 59 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.1% | #72 of 579 | #25 of 59 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 33.1% | #199 of 319 | #21 of 33 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.9% | #145 of 169 | #22 of 26 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
653
+82 (+14%) vs 2020
+17% since 2000-01, when it was 556
Student : Teacher
19.4:1
was 17.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 653 | 33.8 | 19.4:1 | 33% (216) |
| 2023-24 | 630 | 32.5 | 19.4:1 | 25% (155) |
| 2022-23 | 611 | 33.5 | 18.3:1 | 23% (142) |
| 2020-21 | 571 | 32 | 17.8:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 641 | 32.7 | 19.6:1 | 21% (134) |
| 2015-16 | 605 | 33 | 18.3:1 | 26% (156) |
| 2010-11 | 545 | 37 | 14.7:1 | 22% (119) |
| 2000-01 | 556 | 37 | 15.0:1 | 10% (53) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Gahanna South Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 2% (641 to 653); teachers up 3% (32.7 to 33.8).
About Gahanna South Middle School
As a mid-sized middle school, Gahanna South Middle School serves students in Gahanna, Ohio. It is open to students in grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 653 students. That is 35% above the average of about 482 students for middle schools in Ohio.
Gahanna South Middle School is one of the 13 schools that make up Gahanna-Jefferson City (8,290 students in total).
The largest group at Gahanna South Middle School is White students, at 44%. Smaller groups are 38% Black, 8% Asian, 8% Hispanic, and 2% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Franklin County is roughly 59% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Gahanna South Middle School scores 65%.
Gahanna South Middle School lists 33.8 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 19.4 students per teacher. The school's 19.4:1 compares with an average of 17.0:1 for middle schools in Ohio. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 33% of the student body.
Among Ohio public middle schools, Gahanna South Middle School outscored 44%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Gahanna South Middle School is 5.8 points below its prediction. Actual: 70.5%. Predicted: 76.3%.
In the surrounding county, Franklin County, the median household earns about $75,176 a year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Franklin County has 402 public schools with about 195,359 students, including Gahanna South Middle School.
Lincoln Elementary School is the nearest public school to Gahanna South Middle School, about 0.1 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 70.5% is below the 76.8% average for nearby schools.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 571 students in 2020-21, enrollment increased to 653 by 2024-25. The number of students per teacher increased from 17.8 to 19.4 over 4 years.
On allk12, people connected to Gahanna South Middle School can post about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Franklin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,333,048
Census ACS
Median income
$75,176
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
402
195,359 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Gahanna-Jefferson City
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 2,468 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 730 students
- Blacklick Elementary SchoolElementary · 692 students
- Gahanna East Middle SchoolMiddle · 660 students
- Gahanna West Middle SchoolMiddle · 608 students
- High Point Elementary SchoolElementary · 555 students
Other schools in Gahanna
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 2,468 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 730 students
- Gahanna East Middle SchoolMiddle · 660 students
- Gahanna West Middle SchoolMiddle · 608 students
- High Point Elementary SchoolElementary · 555 students
- Goshen Lane Elementary SchoolElementary · 464 students
Nearby schools
- Lincoln Elementary School0.1 mi · 730
- Lincoln High School0.8 mi · 2,468
- Gahanna Lincoln High School - OLS0.8 mi · 15
- Gahanna- Jefferson Clark Hall1.0 mi · 176
- Jefferson Elementary School1.5 mi · 437
- High Point Elementary School1.8 mi · 555
Frequently asked questions
About Gahanna South Middle SchoolHow large is Gahanna South Middle School?
Gahanna South Middle School enrolls approximately 653 students in grades 06-08.
Is Gahanna South Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Gahanna South Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Gahanna South Middle School have?
Gahanna South Middle School employs 34 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.4:1.
How diverse is Gahanna South Middle School?
Gahanna South Middle School reports a student body of 44% White, 8% Hispanic, 38% Black, 8% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Gahanna South Middle School public or private?
Gahanna South Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Gahanna-Jefferson City.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.